With Google Summer of Code underway for the Haiku project, the first results start coming in. The most exciting so far is the work being done on a native multi-process WebKit browser, worked on by Ryan Leavengood and GSoC student Maxime Simon. They've got an interface, and they've got most of WebKit to build.

If any of the developers are reading this (Maxime, Ryan and co), please make omnibox-like url field an optional component, so that one can replace it with a traditional separated url + search widget instead.